Rupert Murdoch Uses Twitter To Attack David Cameron Over Donor Row

Rupert Murdoch has called for a "full independent inquiry" into the donor party scandal currently bringing pressure on David Cameron, in what some have seen as an attempt by the media mogul to gain revenge for an inquiry into press ethics.

The tweets have been interpreted by some as a somewhat gleeful public attack on the prime minister in the wake of the phone hacking scandal that led to the closure of the News of the World and the setting up of the Leveson Inquiry into the activities of the press.

Murdoch's News Corporation owns The Sunday Times as well as The Times, The Sun and the newly launched Sun On Sunday which replaced the NotW.

Murdoch's message was something of a "pox on all your houses" approach to the British political class as he the referenced the the cash-for-peerages row during Tony Blair's time as prime minister, in which Labour was accused of selling places in the House of Lords in exchange for large donations.

"Cameron should have just followed history and flogged some seats in the Lords, if they still have value! precedents of centuries," he said.